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Commentator Kelly McBride says despite efforts by many parties to reduce the Schiavo case to black and white for their own purposes, it represents the grayest of gray areas. McBride heads the ethics department at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

In their national conventions, both the Democrat and Republican parties have sought the support of swing voters. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist about the Republican Convention and the fight for votes in November.

North Korea announced that it possesses nuclear weapons and will withdraw indefinitely from six-party proliferation talks. NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about the country's claim.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on what both parties are looking for, and hoping for, regarding Tuesday's debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and his Democratic counterpart, North Carolina's Sen. John Edwards.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who is seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Edwards discuss the economy, the situation in Iraq and education policy in the latest installment in a weekly series of candidate interviews.

An increase in Medicare premiums announced this month is raising the issue's profile on the 2004 campaign trail. NPR's Julie Rovner assesses both major party presidential candidates' claims about Medicare.

In the 1960s, the Black Panther Party formed based on the idea of armed self-defense. A new exhibit of photographs from the 1960s examines the Panthers' image then and now.

Former Vermont governor Howard Dean announces he will end his presidential campaign, a day after placing a distant third in Wisconsin's primary. Dean says he will continue to use his grassroots organization to transform the Democratic Party and defeat President Bush. Hear NPR News.

The way district lines are drawn often determines which party gets into power.

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema decided to leave the Democratic Party and become an Independent.